Category: Air

Automobile pollution kills more people than automobile collisions do. That’s the rather blunt way of wording the recent findings of a study on the subject done by researchers at MIT. To word it another way — a notably greater number of annual premature deaths in the US can be attributed to automobile pollution than can More Info »

New MIT study finds vehicle emissions are the biggest contributor to these premature deaths. Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have come out with some sobering new data on air pollution’s impact on Americans’ health. The group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, More Info »

Bring Barrio Logan Environmental Justice in 30 seconds Tell City Council Barrio Logan Needs Alternative 1 Barrio Logan has come to a fork in the road. Will our community move toward a future of continued toxic pollution, asthma plaguing our children and families forced into a lower quality of life? Or will we move toward livable communities More Info »

(The following article was written by Jennifer Chu and originally published by the MIT News Office) A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, according to a new MIT-led lifecycle assessment. But what’s surprising to researchers isn’t the size of More Info »

(The following article is from the County News Service) The 7,000th gasoline-powered lawn mower in the 14 years of Supervisor Ron Roberts’ Mowing Down Pollution campaign was exchanged Saturday as 587 Black & Decker 36 Volt mowers were handed out at Qualcomm Stadium. County residents began lining up at 3 a.m. for the chance to both clean More Info »

(The following article was taken from County Supervisor Ron Robert’s Homepage) Qualcomm Stadium is the new location for turning in gasoline powered mowers for top-of-the-line rechargeable electric models

(This is an April 17 news release from the Department of Energy; Image Credit: cars being painted black in Nissan’s new energy efficient paint plant in Smyrna, Tennessee – DOE) As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to lowering energy bills for U.S. businesses, the Energy Department today recognized Nissan’s participation in the Better Buildings, Better More Info »

(The following article is a February 19, 2013, news release from UC Davis; photo credit: UC Davis Professor Anthony Wexler stands with his portable Rapid Single Ultra Fine Particle Mass Spectometer version two (RSMS-II), on Friday. February 15, 2013. Professor Wexler, for the first time, developed a system that can determine which sources of air More Info »